Day in Photos: August 19, 2010

Firemen fight a criminal forest fire in the remote village of Sezulfe in northern Portugal. Around eighty men from Macedo de Cavaleiros Fire Brigade fought three consecutive criminal forest fires in the remote village of Sezulfe.

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Competitors in the Junior Men’s BMX final race over a jump on day five of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics at Tampines Bike Park in Singapore.

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Models who are also artistic students have a body-shape building lesson for their 2011 college entrance examination at Weifang Oriental Beauty Model School in Weifang, Shandong province of China.

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Riot police spray water on a high school student during a protest in Valparaiso City northwest of Santiago. Students protested against changes to the public state education and are demanding that government increase their budget to fund universities.

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A woman whose relatives were killed during a landslide cries while being helped off the disaster site in Puladi township of Gongshan county, Yunnan Province.

U.S. Army Spc. Luisito Brooks gives a thumbs-up to the last Stryker armored vehicle of the 4th Brigade to leave Iraq, as it crosses the border into Kuwait at the Khabari border crossing.

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Fei Jianjun, 40, who suffers from rhinocarcinoma, is photographed at a hospital in Changchun, Jilin province. Fei found a red knot on his nose last September, which then grew into a size as big as a human fist. He did not receive any medical treatment due to poverty until the hospital offered him a free surgery.

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Players of Brazil’s Internacional celebrate with the trophy after they defeated Mexico’s Guadalajara Chivas in the second-leg final soccer match of the Copa Libertadores in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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Paramilitary policemen take part in a training session at a military base in Suining, Sichuan province.

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The Clipper Stad Amsterdam (L) sails during the Sail-In Parade marking the beginning of the Sail Amsterdam 2010 nautical festival held every five years in Amsterdam.

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This photograph, taken during an aerial survey organized by environment group Greenpeace, shows a logged over area in the vast track of pulp wood concession operating in the mountains of Jambi province in Indonesia’s Sumatra island.

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An areal view of a flooded area at Kot Addu in Muzaffargarh. Senator John Kerry and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said the world must act swiftly to stop militants from exploiting the country’s devastating floods and to prevent social unrest.

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Lori Berenson carries her son as she leaves a police vehicle while being taken to the Peruvian court headquarters in Lima.

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A suspected car thief surrenders to a police officer after a foiled carnaping attempt in Makati’s financial district, Philippines.

EPA

David Starr, (L), and Ken Schrader crash in turn one late in the NASCAR Trucks auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn.

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US astronaut Daniel Burbank takes part in a training session simulating the landing of a space capsule into the water near Moscow.

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Raymond Baker talks on the phone as he walks down a road torn apart by a flash flood in Cookeville, Tenn.

AP

Madison Brown, 4, and Zachary Bailey, 8, watch a performance by other children also participating in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus Clown College at Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Patricia Nicol, mother of 23-year-old Sgt. Andrew Nicol, a U.S. Army Ranger from Kensington, N.H., follows his casket with family members after a Mass at Holy Family Parish in Amesbury, Mass. Sgt. Nicol died from wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device while on a tactical mission in Southern Afghanistan earlier this week.